The selection contains ten of the best video films that participated in this year's international competition of the Berlin-based media art festival transmediale, and gives an insight into current artistic video production.

The video competition of the transmediale is now in its 16th year. This continuity of selecting and presenting video art has fostered the popularity of the festival, and the great quality of the participating works from all over the world. For the transmediale.03 competition in 2002, again about 600 video tapes were submitted.

For the video selection programme of transmediale.03, we deliberately chose works that differ strongly in the way they were produced. Consequently, these videos give a wide-ranging insight into the dimensions of current artistic video production in form and content.

_programme

Bull.Miletic (us)
WHIR, 12:00
The city is no longer a clearly localizable spatial unit, but has transformed itself into an "urban field", a collection of activities instead of a material structure.

Gabriela Golder (ar)
Cows, 4:30
March 25, 2002. Rosario, Argentina. About 400 people slaughtered cows that some minutes before had spread on the asphalt when the truck transporting them fell down.

Mark Boswell (us)
Agent Orange, 5:00
"The effects are only superficial" - Agent Orange is a toxic pesticide used during the Viet Nam War, the film is the toxic consequence of the current political crisis brought to head by the liquidation of the twin towers.

Ximenia Cuevas (mx)
La Tombola, 7:00
Ximena Cuevas‘ infiltration of a hilarious live TV talk show. The artist is an unlikely (and uncooperative?) guest.

Lotte Schreiber (at)
Quadro, 10:00
Film portrait of a monumental 1960s apartment block built in the Italian coastal city of Trieste which embodies its period's ideas of a social utopia in a bold concrete structure without any scale.

Linda Wallace (au)
eurovision, 19:30
Glamour and kitsch are the main components of the Eurovision Song Contest, but underneath this thick layer of make-up we also recognize a 1950s interpretation of the 'European idea'.

Andrea Walter (de)
Video Poem 2909, 1:43
Can 103 seconds really show a person?

242.pilots (int)
live@podewil, 6:30
Utilizing their own custom software, 242.pilots expressively improvise rich, layered video works in real-time. A quasi-narrative exploring degrees of abstaction in a mesmerizing, immersive journey through diverse landscapes.

Juan Francisco Romero, Maria Cañas (es)
Places without Engine, 3:34
A geography, both funny and disturbing, of neurosis, apathy, problems and desire, dominated by pixels and tense dialogues, which one becomes the lead player?

Chris Bowman (gb)
afterlife, 10:00
"afterlife" consists of one photograph, three octaves and about ten notes of organised sound. Everything generates from the original image and resolves in it. Sometimes you don´t understand what you had until it´s -almost- gone.
(Chris Bowman)

total running time: 80:00 min